Chris Murphy actually said...

"I think it is absolutely critical. I am arguing that the Administration double-down on our involvement."

"it takes a lot of guts to come down to this committee and lecture the Administration about the conduct of foreign policy"

"we were denied the ability to move two nominees that under any other administration would have gone by voice vote."

"We need to be positioned in order to counteract that narrative and that is why it is so egregious that we do not have ambassadors and that we have had a log jam here in Congress trying to get our dipl..."